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...editors found that Mississippi did not live entirely up to Governor Coleman's billing. Items: ¶Mound Bayou, the biggest (pop. 1,350) all-Negro town in the state, votes in every election, Vice Mayor I. E. Edwards said, but the ballots are never counted by election officials at the county seat...
...some areas, said Mound Bayou's Postmaster C. V. Thurmond, it "would be suicide for a Negro" even to attempt to vote. One minister who came to Itta Bena (pop. 1,725) to meet the editors said that when he had voted, his house was burned. ¶In Cleveland (pop. 6,747) wealthy Attorney Ben Mitchell earnestly told the group: "The Negroes are just naturally and inherently inferior to white people...
...Ringed City. The U.S. find was at Poverty Point, now on Louisiana's sluggish Bayou Macon. The site has been recognized as man-made for 50 years, but its real character escaped appreciation until Professor Ford got air photos from Army engineers. By 500 B.C., says Ford in Natural History, thousands of Indians or pre-Indians were living at Poverty Point in a carefully laid-out city. They honored their gods by building enormous temple mounds vaguely in the shape of a bird. Six concentric octagons of different-colored soil showed up on the air photos; on closer examination...
...Mound Bayou, Miss., Negro Physician T. R. M. Howard announced a fund-raising campaign for a special purpose: to help out any Negro who suffers economic pressure at the hands of the segregationist white Citizens Councils...
...fighting. Against this squalid background the affair has first the quality of a simple idyl, but after its bloody, tragic ending it takes on the shape of legend. In Joshua, which takes place during World War II, an imaginative Negro youngster proves his courage by doing what the Bayou fishermen, including his father, do not dare do: he paddles down to the Gulf where surfaced German subs have fired at the fishing boats. One Summer is a beautifully effective story about a young white boy's first experience with death. Author Grau is short on plot, long on intuition...